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Random Quotes from anywhere! 2003
from Kam's notes
The truth is that to realise the Self is to get what we already have. There is nothing apart from God. There is nothing other than God. Whatever there is, is God. To be aware of Parasiva (supreme God) is to be fearless and free in the Self. There is nothing that is not God; there is no place that is not God; there is no time that is not God; there is no state that is not God; not a single thought-wave can arise separate from God. To be aware of this is to be aware of God. Here, there, wherever you look, whatever you think - it is all Siva (God).
Paramahansa Muktananda
The state of real absorption of consciousness, which is beyond all knowledge, is yoga.
Akshy Upanishad
The body should be trained to be in a state of motionlessness for a prolonged time without discomfort or pain.
Nadabindu Upanishad 3.3.1
In samadhi all senses cease to function & the body remains motionless like a piece of wood.
Nadabindu Upanishad 3.3.2
By the practice of posture the body becomes disease-free, firm & efficient.
Grahayamala
When the yogi attains a body purified by yoga-fire he becomes free from decay & disease, his youth is prolonged, & he lives long. He then experiences superior smell, taste, sight, touch & sound.
Shvetashvatar Upanishad 2.12
Asana when mastered can destroy all diseases & can even assimilate poisons. If it is not possible to master all asanas master only one & be comfortable with it.
Shadil Upanishad 1.3.12-13
When the nadis are purified by nadishodhana pranayama the prana enters Sushumna with a force, & the mind becomes calm.
Shadil Upanishad 1.7.9.10
There are two causes that make the mind wander around:
1 Vasanas-desires that are produced by latent impressions of feelings
2Breathing
If one is controlled the other automatically gets controlled. Of these two, breathing should be controlled first.
Yogakundaly Upanishad
Our life is shaped by our mind. We become what we think. Suffering follows a selfish thought like the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draw it. Peace & joy follow a selfless thought like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha
You cannot be conscious & create suffering for yourself.
How simple life would be without ‘those (our) stories’.
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego & then comes a point when it has served its purpose.
Suffering is necessary until you realise it is unnecessary.
Eckart Tolle
“There is nothing to trust from seeking happiness outside;
you will only become exhausted with suffering,
which is without satisfaction & without end.
No desire means no disturbing emotions,
No pain of attachment,
No pain of anger,
No pain of jealousy
& there is tranquillity, peace, openness,
no barriers, space for love & compassion.
Recognising undesirable situations
as desirable is one of the most powerful
thought training practices.
It is the way to transform suffering into happiness.”
Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Confess your hidden faults.
Approach what you find repulsive.
Help those you think you cannot help.
Anything you are attached to, let it go.
Go to places that scare you.
Chogyam Trungpa
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge, & where is the knowledge we have lost in information.”
T.S. Elliot
“Being fully present here & now, not living in the past or the future or freighting every experience with emotional baggage. It is my ego, I learned, that was causing all my pain. It was full of constant chatter, judgement, denial, hopelessness, excesses, fixed beliefs, the need to control things. I was unable to really move, to breathe to explore. They keep us from being who we are, knowing how to live & what to do, by sapping our creative power & sabotaging the authentic expressions of human energy – the dancer, the singer, the poet, the actor, the healer. Gradually your own style, your own unique way of being, will emerge, & the movements & breathing & the flow of the music will blend into a dynamic unity so that you will feel you are the rhythm. You are flowing. There is no right way to do it, only your way. In doing the rhythms, many people tend to find one or more very natural & easy & another daunting & difficult. It’s vital to enter into the rhythms we naturally resist, because they represent the lost dimensions of our being.
Gabriel Roth
My friends, please hear me: you are light. You come from light, you will always be an extension of light. You have no form unless you choose to move into form. As light, you are omniscient & omnipresent. There is nothing you need because you are the All. Your purity of consciousness moves & joins with the rest of the One. You are limitless in the boundlessness of creation. There is no place that is not your home because everywhere there is but Light. So wherever you go, you will simply find yourself, manifesting again & again & yet again, pushing past all limits of mind into pure, spontaneous creation. The small, limited self dies before the expansive explosion of your Being. You are pure Self, pure Consciousness, pure Light, moving through all the past & the future. That is what you are. You have never been anything else, you can never be anything else. You & the Source are One. All separation is illusion. So know your Self & be free.
Bartholomew
The mind brings all kinds of miseries. The first: the mind is never in the present, it goes on missing the present. And only the present is! The mind is always in the past – always & always in the past. Or always in the future – always & always in the future. The mind goes on jumping from past to the future, from future to past. It never stays here, now. The mind is like the pendulum of a clock – it goes on moving from one polarity to another polarity but never stays in the middle. One has to get out of this trap of the past & the future – because the door opens in the present; the door opens in the moment, either now or never. And the door is open, but our eyes are wavering. We look into the past, we look into the future – and the present is very, very small between these two & we go on missing it. unless you drop the mind you can never be in tune with existence, you cannot pulsate with the pulse of the universe. If you don’t drop the mind you go on living in a private world of your our creation; you don’t live in the real world.
The daily guru
Neuro-cardiologists have discovered that 60 to 65 % of the cells of the heart are actually neural cells, identical to those in the brain, & are not muscle cells as previously thought.
Biophysicists have discovered that the heart produces the body’s strongest electromagnetic field with a frequency over 40 times that of the brain. Emitting various radio & light waves, it encompasses the entire body, extending anywhere from 3 to 7 metres beyond it.
There are even recent studies indicating that our genes & DNA may not be rigidly locked into fixed programs as previously thought, but greatly affected by environmental factors, & in particular, emotional environments.
Ken Grimmer, from the thinking heart
99.99% of the total electromagnetic spectrum is invisible to human senses.
There are 6 vectors of energy in a quantum system.
Discovering how little we know, doesn’t belittle how little we know.
You are 1/10,000th of the height of the earth which is 1/150th of the sun which is one star out of 2 billion galaxies of 100 billion stars each. (how important are you?)
Bucky Fuller
Whatever you judge, you attract, become or create in your life until you stop judging and start loving.
There has been a total order in your life since conception.
The dominant/recessive traits of the genes respond to the dominant/recessive personalities
4 things that dissipate energy:
1Fear
2 Guilt
3 Infatuation
4 Resentment
Entropy moves from order to disorder, (Those who don’t love, disintegrate)
Syntropy moves from disorder to order (Those who love, integrate)
John Demartini
Learning is never an easy enterprise, nor truth an easy matter. The great scientists & philosophers have shown patience & perseverance of courage in surmounting the social hardships of opposition & distrust, as well as the intellectual difficulties which might have discouraged men of less resolve to seek & find the truth.
The 4 principle virtues are:
1 Temperance
2 Justice
3 Wisdom
4 Courage
Tyranny is said to arise naturally out of democracy & the most aggravated form of tyranny & slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty.
Plato
Courageous is he “whose spirit retains in pleasure & pain the commands of reason about what ought or ought not to fear.
Socrates
The political analogy finds justice in a well ordered state, where wisdom rules, courage defends the laws, & peace & temperance balances the economy.
It is harder to face what is painful than to abstain from what is pleasant.
Each thing seeks its own perfection.
Nature does nothing in vain.
The analysis of virtue is a mean between two vices… because the vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions & actions.
Aristotle
Love is not love which alters when it alternation finds.
Shakespeare
I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they (the phenomena of nature) may all depend upon certain forces by which the particles of bodies by some causes hitherto unknown, are either mutually impelled towards one another & cohere to regular figures or are repelled & recede from one another. (just like marriage & divorce)
Newton from Mathematical Principles
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. (people only change when they have to)
1st law of motion
Most people learn
10 % of what they read
20% of what they hear
30% of what they see
50% of what they see & hear
70% of what they talk over with others
80% of what they do in real life
95% of what they teach someone else
Dale’s cone of learning
In a living world, order & disorder are always created simultaneously.
Dissipative structures are islands of order in a sea of disorder, maintaining & ever increasing their order at the expense of greater disorder in their environment.
Human intelligence, memory & decisions are never rational but always coloured by emotions...
Heat from the sun has increased 25% over earth life with constant surface temperature for 4 billion years.
In chaos theory the term chaos has acquired a new technical meaning, not merely random but showing a deeper level of pattered order.
Non-equilibrium is a source of order.
Chemical instabilities require the presence of catalytic loops, which bring the system to the point of instability through repeated self-amplifying feedback. (just like guru to student)
A bifurcation point is a threshold of stability at which the dissipative structure may either breakdown or breakthrough to one of several new states of order. (like how people evolve)
Thus natural selection may favour & sustain living systems “at the edge of chaos”, because these may be best able to coordinate complex & flexible behaviour, best able to adapt & evolve.
The 3 criteria of a living system:
1Pattern of organization-the configuration of relationships that determines the system’s essential characteristics
2Structure-The physical embodiment of the system’s pattern of organization
3Life Process-The activity involved in the continual embodiment of the system’s pattern of organization
The simplest organisms are capable of perception & thus of cognition.
The nervous system, the immune system & the endocrine system form a single cognitive network, not separate.
Fridjov Capra from the Tao of physics
The genome is modelled by a binary network at the edge of chaos & is not a linear array of independent genes (manifesting as traits) but a highly interwoven network of multiple reciprocal effects mediated through repressors & depressors, exons & inteons, jumping genes & even structural proteins.
Fransico Varela
3 types of multicellular living systems:
1Organisms
2Ecosystems
3 Societies
Maturana & Varela from ‘The tree of knowledge’
The 4 types of sensations variations:
1Quality
2Intensity
3Duration
4Clarity
(Source unknown)
Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue.
Nitzche
Neither Creator nor creature was ever without love, either natural or of the mind.
Dante
In desire, a certain imperfection is implied.
All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God himself.
Neither man nor any creature, can attain final happiness by his natural powers.
Aquinas
Combine confidence with caution in everything we do.
Epictetus
Be confident in all that lies beyond the will’s control, be cautious in all that is dependant on the will.
Stoic maxim
Flight at its proper time, Just as fighting,
Is to be reckoned as showing strength of mind.
One & the same thing may at the same time be both good & evil or indifferent – according to the person who makes the judgement of it.
Spinoza
There is nothing which custom does not or may not do; every belief or practice can be paired with its opposite in the customs of some other time or place, no belief or practice can demand unqualified or universal assent.
All moral judgments are matters of opinion, either individual or customary in origin – cultural conventions of a time or place.
Locke
Freud’s great insight is that emotions repressed do not atrophy & disappear, on the contrary, their damned-up energies accumulate, the active nucleus of emotional disorders; phobias, anxiety, obsessions, compulsions & hysterias.
Apparently rational processes both thought & decision are themselves emotionally mixed prejudices or beliefs.
Freud
If thou art pained by any external thing it is not this thing which disturbs thee, but thy own judgement about it. It is in thy power to wipe out this judgement now.
Marcus Aurelius
“Omnia vincit amor” (Love conquers all)
Virgil
Love & do what you will
Augustine
Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knowth God. He that loveth not, knowth not God; for God is love. And we have know & believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
The beatitude of those who see God dispenses with faith & hope, but the vision of God is inseparable from the fruition of love.
St. John
You must seek the foundations of your astronomy, in a more elevated science, I mean in physics or meta-physics.
Kepler
Aesthetic judgements express inner harmonies & discords between objects of thought.
William James
Hold your gaze on the healthy humans, see what makes them healthy & keeps them healthy, then I call your attention to what they do & how they do it.
Most physical fitness exercises develop the body for its own sake, the yogi develops the body so it will not hold him back in his true quest, enlightenment, which has more depth.
The yogi develops the muscles & obtains control over every organ, cell & part of his body, acquiring a mastery & perfection over even the involuntary functions something of which western physical fitness experts experience practically nothing.
Much of what we call disease is really a beneficent action of nature designed to rid the body of poisonous substances which have been generated or allowed to enter the system.
No organism can become diseased while the proper conditions of health are observed.
We are living in a civilization which has forced a more unnatural mode of life upon us & the life force finds it difficult to achieve a state of perfection. We do not eat naturally, drink naturally, sleep naturally, breath naturally, exercise naturally, dress or think naturally.
Yogi Ramachakara from Hatha Yoga
Parents in a symbiotic state don’t know that the traits they experience in their children, that bother them so much, are aspects in themselves that they have rejected.
They project unacknowledged aspects of themselves onto their children as restrictions, attitudes or wishes. In reality what they are rejecting in their children, they have previously imprisoned or buried in themselves. At some point their parents said to them “You cannot be like that.” Now they say that to their own children, “You cannot be like that & be accepted in this home.”
When a parent is awed by the child prodigy living under her roof, she may be admiring her own undeveloped intellectual potential.
Harville Hendrix
400 million people lack the calories, proteins, vitamins & minerals needed to sustain their bodies & minds in a healthy state.
1.2 billion people live in absolute poverty, lacking the basic needs of food, clothing & shelter. (per capita income of less than $200)
If, then, allowing someone to die is not intrinsically different from killing someone, it would seem that we are all murderers. Spending money on luxuries instead of giving it away indicates selfishness & indifference to the sufferings of others
P. Singer, 1993
Beware the sin of ingratitude, & study always to give praises unto God.
St. Francis
The flow of warm air from the surface of the Earth towards outer space may generate hexagonal circulation vortices that leave imprints on the sand dunes in the desert & artic snow fields.
Lazzlo
Living in a grateful world
Be grateful to those who have hurt or harmed you, For they have reinforced your determination.
Be grateful to those who have deceived you, For they have deepened your insight.
Be grateful to those who have hit you, For they have reduced your karmic obstacles.
Be grateful to those who have abandoned you, For they have taught you to be independent.
Be grateful to those who have made you stumble, For they have strengthened your ability.
Be grateful to those who have denounced you, For they have increased your wisdom & concentration.
Be grateful to those who have made you firm & resolute, & helped in your achievement.
Amitabha Buddhist society
Tsunoda speculates that our brains must somehow be tuned into the earth’s revolution around the sun, to the phases of the moon, or other cosmic clocks. “The link with cosmic activity suggests that there is a miniature cosmos in the human brain. Yet we have lost our ability to perceive this microcosm within ourselves.
Dr. Tada Nobu
Erikson’s stages of psychological development:
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Stage of development
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0-1 |
Basic trust versus mistrust
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1-3 |
Autonomy versus shame & doubt
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3-5 |
Initiative versus guilt
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5-12 |
Industry versus inferiority
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12-18 |
Identity versus confusion
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18-24 |
Intimacy versus isolation-Time for learning to share oneself with another person. Success leads to intimacy, the capacity to make & abide by concrete commitments to other people. Failure can lead to lifelong sense of isolation, even if surrounded by other people. |
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25-65 |
Generativity versus stagnation-During this longest life stage caring for others-family, friendships, & work-leads to generativity, a sense of contribution to the next generation. Failure leads to stagnation, as sense of boredom & meaninglessness. |
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65-death |
Integrity versus despair-successful resolution of the previous crisis leads, finally, to a sense of integrity. The integrated person can look objectively at life, see broad truths, & counsel wisely those in earlier stages. Failure in the earlier crisis may lead to despair, a helpless & bitter sense that life has been incomplete & will end soon. |
The heart has its reason, which the reason does not know.
Pascal
Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God.
Bible
When asked why one should choose to be born or not?
Anaxagoras answered ‘For the sake of viewing the heavens & the whole order of the universe.’
Inflammation is a reconstructive process & should not be suppressed. Every acute disease is a result of a cleansing & healing effort of nature.
Henry lindlahr
Body’s early warning signals of danger:
1Tightening of shoulders or throat
2Sinking gut feeling
3Sweaty hands
4 Shallow breathing
5Heart racing
One must have studied much to know that one knows little.
Anon
The great learning is rooted in being still, coming to rest in a perfect equilibrium.
Confucius
Scientific research found that most people are no more satisfied with life after marriage than they were before marriage. People do tend to get a boost in life satisfaction when they first marry but the increase in satisfaction is small & most people eventually return to their prior happiness levels.
Unknown source
If you hate a person, you hate something in him. What isn’t a part of ourselves doesn’t disturbs us.
Hermann Hesse
Behold the Kingdom of God is within you.
Jesus
There is something behind the mind which abides in Silence within the mind. It is the Supreme Mystery, beyond thought. Let one’s mind & one’s subtle body rest upon that & that alone.
Maitreya Upanishad
Man bears the whole universe within himself & comes closest to the mystery of the world by stepping inside himself.
Novalis (1722-1801)
A dead saint is always better for the church than a live one.
Unknown source
The more specialised you are, the harder it is for you to adapt.
The reason for your success will become your limitation & eventual failure.
Unknown source
In the first place, there can be no living science unless there is a widespread instinctive conviction in the existence of an order of things, & in particular, of an order of nature. (divine intelligence)
Alfred Northhead, science & the modern world
The same regions do not remain always sea or always land, but change their condition in the course of time. (Impermanence)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Rocks, like everything else are subject to change & so also are our views on them. (Impermanence)
F.Y. loewinson-lessing, 1936
Long is the way & hard that out of hell leads to the light.
John Milton (1608-1519)
The surface of the land is made by nature of decay…Our fertile plains are formed from the ruins of the mountains. (Impermanence)
James Hutton, 1785
The earth has a spirit of growth.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Thoreau
A broken heart lets the light shine in.
Unknown source
Conquering others requires force, Conquering yourself requires strength.
Lao Tsu
Dopamine accelerates, serotonin decelerates.
Unknown source
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